The verdict comes after US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland arrived in the country on Monday to hold three days of talks with Russian officials. On Tuesday, local media reported that negotiations between Nuland and Ryabkov were floundering as the diplomats struggled to find common ground. Earlier this week, …
Read More »Over 50 million people suffered from major depressive disorder in 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic, new global study estimates
While “mental disorders were leading causes of the global health-related burden” even before the pandemic, the spread of the dreaded virus and subsequent restrictive measures to fight the disease have considerably added to the load, a study published in the Lancet medical journal on Friday suggests. An extra 53.2 million …
Read More »‘Who broke the Internet?!’ Major outages hit Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, Zoom, Snapchat & others after FB crash
While the glitches affected a number of popular social media platforms – among them Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat – other more significant institutions also faced major tech issues on Monday, such as Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, the professional networking site LinkedIn and the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, all …
Read More »Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram ALL down in major worldwide outage
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Read More »At least 2 people shot at Virginia high school, police responding to ‘major incident’
Newport News police reported a shooting at Heritage just before noon local time on Monday. There have been multiple reports of wounded and even killed, citing radio traffic from the site. A male and a female, both 17, were shot after “some kind of altercation” in the school cafeteria, Police …
Read More »Russian elections: Communists set sights on major gains, but Western pundits are already dusting off their ‘rigged vote’ rhetoric
Russia’s constitution is sometimes described as “super-presidential.” It concentrates enormous powers in the hands of the head of state, including the right to appoint ministers, initiate legislation, and issue decrees. While the parliament does in theory have the right to remove the president, the impeachment process in practice makes this …
Read More »LA becomes first major US school district to MANDATE vaccines for all eligible students aged 12 & older
The board for the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to mandate jabs for students on Thursday, with no members dissenting. The move will require all eligible students “to become vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination” to school administrators, while kids who just turned 12 will be made to receive …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: Joe Biden’s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy issue over the past 40 years, and Afghanistan proves it
Having held the post of defense secretary between 2006 and 2011, Gates once famously declared that Joe Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” This includes Biden’s opposition to going after and killing Osama bin Laden in 2011 (one …
Read More »As Russian & Chinese troops carry out major joint exercises, US efforts to break the bond between Moscow & Beijing now seem doomed
Hosted in West China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the drills, which concluded on Friday, involved a total of 10,000 troops dispatched by both sides, mostly from China’s PLA Western Theater Command and Russia’s Eastern Military District. However, as well as bolstering inter-operability and learning to co-ordinate actions, the maneuvers also …
Read More »Taliban captures Mazar-i-Sharif, last major government stronghold in Afghanistan’s north
Reports suggest the city fell abruptly on Saturday, with officials and some troops fleeing to neighboring Uzbekistan. The capital of the Balkh province, it was widely regarded as a major government stronghold, but was captured largely without fighting, according to local sources. READ MORE: ‘We are afraid’: Kabul residents uneasy …
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